academia: the website builder for Hugo

Create a free website with academia using Markdown, Jupyter, or RStudio. Choose a beautiful color theme and build anything with the Page Builder - over 40 widgets, themes, and language packs included!

Check out the latest <strong>demo</strong> of what you’ll get in less than 10 minutes, or view the <strong>showcase</strong> of personal, project, and business sites.

• <strong>Setup academia</strong>
• <strong>Get Started</strong>
• View the documentation
• Ask a question
• Request a feature or report a bug
• Updating? View the Update Guide and Release Notes
• Support development of academia:
  • Donate a coffee
  • Become a backer on Patreon
  • Decorate your laptop or journal with an academia sticker
  • Wear the T-shirt

<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gcushen/hugo-academia/master/academia.png" alt="Screenshot">

Key features:

• Page builder - Create anything with <strong>widgets</strong> and <strong>elements</strong>
• Edit any type of content - Blog posts, publications, talks, slides, projects, and more!
• Create content in <strong>Markdown</strong> , <strong>Jupyter</strong> , or <strong>RStudio</strong>
• Plugin System - Fully customizable <strong>color</strong> and <strong>font themes</strong>
• Display Code and Math - Code highlighting and LaTeX math supported
• Integrations - Google Analytics , Disqus commenting , Maps, Contact Forms, and more!
• Beautiful Site - Simple and refreshing one page design
• Industry-Leading SEO - Help get your website found on search engines and social media
• Media Galleries - Display your images and videos with captions in a customizable gallery
• Mobile Friendly - Look amazing on every screen with a mobile friendly version of your site
• Multi-language - 15+ language packs including English, 中文, and Português
• Multi-user - Each author gets their own profile page
• Privacy Pack - Assists with GDPR
• Stand Out - Bring your site to life with animation, parallax backgrounds, and scroll effects
• One-Click Deployment - No servers. No databases. Only files.

Color Themes

academia comes with day (light) and night (dark) mode built-in. Click the sun/moon icon in the top right of the Demo to see it in action!

Choose a stunning color and font theme for your site. Themes are fully customizable and include:

Ecosystem

• academia Admin : An admin tool to import publications from BibTeX or import assets for an offline site
• academia Scripts : Scripts to help migrate content to new versions of academia

Install

You can choose from one of the following four methods to install:

• <strong>one-click install using your web browser (recommended)</strong>
• install on your computer using <strong>Git</strong> with the Command Prompt/Terminal app
• install on your computer by downloading the <strong>ZIP files</strong>
• install on your computer with <strong>RStudio</strong>

Then personalize and deploy your new site .

Updating

View the Update Guide .

Feel free to star the project on Github to help keep track of updates .

License

Copyright 2016-present George Cushen .

Released under the MIT license.